It might seem like a perfect springboard for the presidency, but most vice presidents end up as mere footnotes in history.

Two months later, he signed the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave Act. He failed to win the nomination of the Whig Party at its 1852 convention and remains the last president ...

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a ...

Private property owners say the unwillingness of Virginia hound hunters (as houndsmen are called there) to compromise is “maddening.” Other states have more regulations in place for hunters who run ...

Power Shift Africa’s Mohamed Adow says the finance target for rich countries is just 20 percent of what is needed.

Broadcasting from Baku, Azerbaijan, on the final official day of this year’s finance-themed United Nations climate summit, we look at how climate justice activists are outraged at how little money is ...

Like their counterparts in other states that have tried and failed to defeat abortion-rights ... now we have something in the state that is a compromise,” said Copeland, who has been organizing ...

The province's police watchdog is providing some new details about police-involved shooting that left one man dead and a second seriously injured in a remote northern Quebec village. A logo for ...

Prof Naituli thinks it has nothing to do with the fact that the two past presidents were both Catholics but more because of the many failed promises in the current regime, the high cost of living ...

The recent Compromise of 1850 had resulted in the passage of a strengthened fugitive ... the support of six men who could vouch for her and make up the lost money if she failed to return. She obtained ...

Parliaments are supposed to work out political disagreements through debate, discussion, and compromise, carefully vetting proposed ... Meanwhile, US president Donald Trump has failed to stand up for ...